Inside Chicago Government

Police workforce: opacity, budget tricks, and clout

In a discussion by award-winning journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben riffed on Dave's ongoing investigation into police workforce allocation, including: typical budget tactics used in Mayor Brandon Johnson's 2025 budget; the challenges of police workforce data; and the "clots of clout" that could thwart effective police deployment:
http://www.chigov.com/chicago/public-safety/police-workforce-joravsky-dec-2024